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Inside California's $25 billion plot to save its water supply
2014-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Behind many of the shiny fruits and vegetables in the produce aisle, there's a decidedly ominous backstory: California, supplier of much of our domestic produce, is just one earthquake away from drying up. The problem is that most of the state's agricultural water, as well as drinking water for large parts of Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other major metropolitan areas, comes from a vast estuary northeast of the San Francisco Bay. It's an estuary that's about to collapse. The Sacramento-San...
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J&J Said to Agree to Sell Ortho Unit to Carlyle for $4 Billion
2014-01-16 11:34:37| Food - Topix.net
Johnson & Johnson agreed to sell its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit to Carlyle Group LP for about $4 billion and may make an announcement as soon as today, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Renewable Energy at $254 Billion? Let?s Make It a Clean Trillion
2014-01-16 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Billionaire bankers gathered at the United Nations yesterday to call for more investment in renewable energy -- $1 trillion a year, to be exact. It wont be easy. Global investment in renewable energy fell 12 percent in 2013 to $254 billion, according to data released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), casting a shadow over the notion of a clean trillion. Last year was the second decline in renewable investments since 2011s record-high $318 billion. Investors and climate-policy advocates...
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J&J Said to Agree to Sell Ortho Unit to Carlyle for $4 Billion
2014-01-16 09:38:55| Biotech - Topix.net
Johnson & Johnson agreed to sell its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit to Carlyle Group LP for about $4 billion and may make an announcement as soon as today, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Aubrey McClendon's $2 Billion Attempted IPO; Terrible For Investors, But Good For Him As Usual
2014-01-15 18:45:55| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
History may not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme"*. Since his $35 million termination ceremony in April of 2013 as CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp Aubrey McClendon has reinvented himself as a private equity mogul.
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